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Issue: Vol. 925 No. 1: 31 Mar. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-03-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.925.1.1
Page range: 1–10
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A new locality and host for Pseudione minimocrenulata Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae) in the Indian Ocean, with comments on the identity of the type specimens

The Marine Reference Collection and Resource Center, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, U.S.A.
Crustacea Bopyridae Pseudione Indian Ocean Munida Virgin Islands

Abstract

Three parasitized specimens of Munida andamanica Alcock, 1894, including one with a double infestation, from the Indian Ocean off Mozambique were found to contain bopyrid isopods referable to Pseudione minimocrenulata Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931. This represents a new host species and locality for the parasite which has been reported only twice before from the Kei Islands (Indonesia) and Madagascar. Both sexes of P. minimocrenulata are redescribed and illustrated. Examination of type material revealed that the type series contains isopod pairs of two different species. The female from the Kei Islands is selected as lectotype to fix the identity of the species, while the pair from the U.S. Virgin Islands is identified as P. confusa maxillipedis Bourdon, 1972.

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